Agenda and minutes

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Items
No. Item

30.

EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE

The Chairman will draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 6.

 

Minutes:

The Democratic Services Officer drew attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out on the Agenda.

 

31.

APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND SUBSTITUTIONS

Minutes:

There were none.

32.

DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST

At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to indicate:

(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.

(b) The nature of their interest.

(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest,  (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)

Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council’s Monitoring Officeror a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.

Minutes:

There were none.

 

33.

TO ANNOUNCE ANY URGENT BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIRMAN

Minutes:

There was none.

 

34.

ITEMS FROM THE PUBLIC - TO RECEIVE DEPUTATIONS, STATEMENTS, PETITIONS OR QUESTIONS

At the time of publication, no items had been submitted

Minutes:

There were none.

35.

ITEMS FROM COUNCILLORS AND CO-OPTED MEMBERS

To deal with any petitions or questions from Councillors and where appropriate co-opted members.

 

Minutes:

There was none.

 

36.

MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING pdf icon PDF 69 KB

Minutes:

It was RESOLVED that the minutes of the previous meeting be confirmed as a correct record and signed by the Chair.

 

37.

Handel Road DMMO pdf icon PDF 91 KB

An application has been received for a Definitive Map Modification Order (‘DMMO’) to be made under section 53(2) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (‘the 1981 Act’) to modify the Definitive Map and Statement of Public Rights of Way (‘the DM&S’) by adding a public footpath running from Park Road to Charlton Park in Keynsham.

 

It is recommended that the Regulatory (Access) Committee resolves for Bath and North East Somerset Council (“the Authority”) makes a DMMO to record the Application Route, as shown by a broken black line on the plan contained at Appendix 1 (“the Decision Plan”) and described in the schedule contained at Appendix 2, on the DM&S.

Additional documents:

Minutes:

The Chair invited Graeme Stark (Senior Officer – Public Rights of Way) to introduce the item.

 

Graeme Stark informed the Committee that in 2008 Keynsham Town Council had made an application for a public footpath to be recorded on Definitive Map and Statements behind Handel Road in Keynsham.  An investigation and consultation had been carried out and substantial number of User Evidence Forms (UEFs) were received from the public. 

 

The UEFs documented significant use of the application route between 1988 and 2008.  There was no evidence presented that the landowner took any steps to show that they did not intend to dedicate the route to the public.

 

Fifteen objections and representations had been submitted by members of the public.  Nine of those were objections to the application; however none of these objections were based on legally relevant grounds.

 

While the Council was sympathetic to local residents’ concerns regarding safety and security, these were not factors which the Council can take into consideration.

 

Graeme Stark added the evidence demonstrated that the application route had become a public footpath by virtue of Section 31/1 of the Highways Act 1980 and the DMMO should therefore be made to record the application route on the Definitive Map and Statements.

 

On a motion from Councillor Mathew Blankley, second by Councillor Jeremy Sparks, it was unanimously RESOLVED to support officer’s recommendation to make a Definitive Map and Modification Order to record the Application Route, as shown by a broken black line on the plan contained at Appendix 1 (‘the decision plan’) and described in the schedule contained at Appendix 2, on the Definitive Map and Statements.

38.

Announcement from the Chair

Minutes:

The Chair asked the Committee to observe a minute of silence in the mark of respect for David Waterstone, who was the Chair of the Joint Local Access Forum and local representative of the Ramblers’ Association.